CGIHTTPServer, popen3, and windoze

[Fuzzyman]

Fuzzyman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I may well post this a  a bug on Monday (after testing with Python 2.3)
> - but I thought I'd post here to see if anyone has any ideas.
>

Hmm... testing on Python 2.3 I *don't* have the same problem - but it's
very frustrating under Python 2.4 (different machine). I wonder what
else is different ?

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

> The basic problem is that under Python 2.4 (and windoze XP SP2)
> CGIHTTPServer isn't passing the CGI environment variables to scripts it
> runs.
>
> I've checked that the environment variables all exist in os.environ
> before the subprocess is launched using popen3.
>
> I've *also* checked that when I launch a test subprocess using popen3
> myself, environment variables *are* passed on - so I'm a bit
> confused...
>
> I wonder if anyone can shed any light on this behavior ?
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Fuzzyman
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python
>
> P.S. I've also patched CGIHTTPServer so that it can handle paths wih
> spaces and CGIs in subdirectories of the 'cgi-bin' folder. I'll
> *suggest* these changes to the maintainers -  but my tests were on the
> original version.